BTB: Just How Important Is Pass Blocking For Running Backs?

[CCBoy]

Just How Important Is Pass Blocking For Running Backs?
by One.Cool.Customer on Jun 19, 2011 5:00 AM CDT in Dallas Cowboys General


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A couple of days ago we looked at the Cowboys running backs and their broken tackle rates, courtesy of Football Outsiders. Today we turn our attention to another advanced stats site and look at what Pro Football Focus have to say about the pass blocking efficiency of running backs.

Obviously, we wouldn't be discussing this stat if it didn't pertain to at least one of the Cowboys running backs, and sure enough, Felix Jones makes PFF's top ten list, coming in with a Pass Blocking Efficiency (PBE) rate of 3.04.

Felix Jones stayed in to block on 107 passing snaps and allowed four pressures (one sack, three hurries). Over the last three years, Jones has allowed 8 pressures on 157 pass protection snaps for a PBE of 3.98, the tenth best rate over that timespan...

 

[bsheeern]

This type of info can be very important if taken into consideration properly. Stats often paint a picture and can be misleading in the wrong hands/brains.

Read an article in the new espn mag about the new cameras some NBA teams are using that give them stats of things that normally would take hours and hours to compile. 1 example was Kevin Durant's shooting percentage once he dribbled the ball vs just catching and shooting. It was a very very huge difference. I'll look tonight and see the exact %.

Things like this will paint a much better picture for everyone involved in sports. I've watched the blocking of our rb's quite a bit. I see blocking as a rb just as important as a TE or Lineman. They will do more to handicap you if they can't block than most realize. Especially when your gameplan is forced to change.

Happy fathers day!!

 

[realtick]

Things like this will paint a much better picture for everyone involved in sports. I've watched the blocking of our rb's quite a bit. I see blocking as a rb just as important as a TE or Lineman. They will do more to handicap you if they can't block than most realize. Especially when your gameplan is forced to change.

Happy fathers day!!

It's incredibly important.

Typically when a running back is called to pass-block, he is the last man standing between the QB and the on-coming rusher (typically a blitzer coming free).

You get a RB that can't step up and you get a killed QB.

 

[RS12]

Ask Romo what he thinks about Gronkowski's blocking.

 

[burmafrd]

Now no one should expect much if a RB had to take on a DL; remember Witten trying to block on Allen? The best they can hope to do is MAYBE slow them down. SO any one using an attempted block of a RB on a DL for anything is an idiot. Only if the RB actually dodges the DL should you count it against him. What really matters is how a RB does picking up a blitzing LB or DB. That is what really matters.

 

[Manster74]

Ask Romo what he thinks about Gronkowski's blocking.

Exactly what I was thinking when I saw this post

 

[Hostile]

Exactly what I was thinking when I saw this post

Make that three of us.

 

[Hoofbite]

This type of info can be very important if taken into consideration properly. Stats often paint a picture and can be misleading in the wrong hands/brains.

Read an article in the new espn mag about the new cameras some NBA teams are using that give them stats of things that normally would take hours and hours to compile. 1 example was Kevin Durant's shooting percentage once he dribbled the ball vs just catching and shooting. It was a very very huge difference. I'll look tonight and see the exact %.

Things like this will paint a much better picture for everyone involved in sports. I've watched the blocking of our rb's quite a bit. I see blocking as a rb just as important as a TE or Lineman. They will do more to handicap you if they can't block than most realize. Especially when your gameplan is forced to change.

Happy fathers day!!

A buddy of mine was telling me about Shane Battier (sp? & I think that's who he said it was. I'm not good with NBA names, I don't really follow) who's like a human computer or sorts. I guess whatever team he plays for had hired some person who happened to be a statistics nut and figured out that Battier (sp?) brought some ridiculous amount of statistical advantage to the court. Anyhow, I guess Battier (sp?) can keep all these statistics in his head and actually uses them in games. I guess he gets a pre-game report on the player he is guarding and how such player performs in some random situations and he just plays the stats on the court.

I dunno, my buddy was telling me about it......I've probably got it all backwards. I'm gonna have to get the article from him. Sounded interesting as all hell.

 

[Hoofbite]

So Barber is horrid in pass protection and Felix is actually pretty good?

Wasn't there some argument about Barber getting his playing time based on his protection ability?

The way this team uses the RB is a mystery.

 

[28 Joker]

But...But...

Nick Eatman states that the best pass blocking RB on the Cowboys is:

"Barber"..."easy"

 

[DFWJC]

......
I see blocking as a rb just as important as a TE or Lineman. .......

You had me up to here.

Although pass blocking can be very improtant for RBs I'm sure you don't think it is as importnat for RBs as it is for Lineman.....I mean blocking is the lineman's core responsibilty. Right?

 

[xwalker]

This makes me think about Emmitt and how he was one of the best pass blocking RBs ever.

 

[Yeagermeister]

Make that three of us.

Make that 4

 

[Stautner]

The Cowboys must feel pass blocking is important for RB's. That was used as partial justification for Barber playing as much as he did and Choice playing as little as he did.

 

[kmd24]

A buddy of mine was telling me about Shane Battier (sp? & I think that's who he said it was. I'm not good with NBA names, I don't really follow) who's like a human computer or sorts. I guess whatever team he plays for had hired some person who happened to be a statistics nut and figured out that Battier (sp?) brought some ridiculous amount of statistical advantage to the court. Anyhow, I guess Battier (sp?) can keep all these statistics in his head and actually uses them in games. I guess he gets a pre-game report on the player he is guarding and how such player performs in some random situations and he just plays the stats on the court.

I dunno, my buddy was telling me about it......I've probably got it all backwards. I'm gonna have to get the article from him. Sounded interesting as all hell.

It's a NYT article. Long but interesting read.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/magazine/15Battier-t.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1308585817-YXPLjPAOvCxBiU/61JnAeA